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In 1978, during their concerts at Tokyo’s Nakano Sun Plaza, the Scorpions interrupted their sequence of hard-rock songs to perform a melody that much of the Japanese audience had known since childhood. Klaus Meine...
Historians have long examined how ideas travel. Books, newspapers, political organizations, migration, diplomacy, and trade have all been recognized as channels through which beliefs, values, and ideologies cross borders. Music, however, has received comparatively...
Some songs travel because they carry a political message. Others survive because they contain a metaphor powerful enough to be detached from its original context and reinterpreted elsewhere. Waltzing Matilda belongs to this second...
The covers of Popular Music published during the 1980s offer more than a sequence of editorial images. They provide a visual history of how popular music studies were taking shape as an academic field....
What happens when works of popular culture outlive both the historical circumstances that produced them and the generations that first embraced them? Do they become monuments to be preserved and celebrated, or can they...
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